Many online shoppers have more luck hunting for items than trusting services to send alerts, said Grechen Reiter, owner of Grechen Media, a network of shopping blogs.
Archaeologists may have more luck looking for an earlier transition to complex societies at sites in the north, perhaps including Tell Hamoukar.
An infrastructure bank heavily influenced but not directly controlled by China might have more luck.As for other Asian countries, the attraction of the scheme is all too obvious: money.
It would have required much more luck than insight for someone to have picked this year's champions: the unseeded, 44th-ranked Gaudio of Argentina and Anastasiya Myskina of Russia.
Colanzi's arrangements, meanwhile, were more luck than judgement: "For me, it wasn't important to go with assunzione, it just happened because my choice was delayed a lot, so I was 'assunto' before going".
We caught up with Betty to see what happened and whether she'd had any more luck on her quest for justice and found she's become an unexpectedly public advocate for the legalisation and regulation of medical marijuana.
However modestly or grandly, they indulge illusions of being someone else or somewhere else, always yearning for more luck, time, opportunity.
Zara Phillips, the daughter of Princess Anne, will hope for more luck in 2012, having missed the last two Games through injuries to her horse.
